Improvement in top irons and props for carriages



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

UYRUS W. SALADEE AND VILLIAM BAUDER, OF GIROLEVILLE, VOHIO. IMPROVEMENT IN TOP IRONS AND PRPS FOR CARRIAGES.

f Specicationforming part of Letters Patent No. 86,696, dated February 9, 1869.

To all whom it may concer-n i Be it known that we, GYEUs W. SALADEE and WILLIAM BAUDEE, both of (lircleville in the State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Mode of GonstructingTop Irons and Props for Supporting and Adjusting Tops to 4Carriages and Buggies, and we do hereby declare that the following is 'a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of our invention consists in the peculiar manner of supporting and adjusting tops to carriages and buggies, substantially as hereinafter shown and described.

Tops to carriages and buggies as now generally constructed lack one important consideration for the support of that portion of them between the two back bows, E3 and E4, (Figure 1,) the lower prop-iron, C, Fig. 1, invariably extending up and taking hold of the third bow, E3, and the front prop-iron, A, extending from bow E3 to the front` bow, E', and thus the leather covering the top from the bow E to E3 is properly strained and supported; but from the latter mentioned bow to the back one, E4, there is no such support, and hence this back quarter ofthe top is continually drawing out of shape. Now, to remedy this defect we apply the short quarter prop-iron B (see Figs. l and 2) with a joint, 2, and the front end of which has a square hole, as shown in Fig. 2. To the back edge of the bow E3 issecured the prop T, (shownin Fig. 4,) and through which is passed the bolt of the lever D, and which is provided with a square corresponding tothe square hole in the front of the iron B. This bolt ofthe lever D is passed through from the inside of the top. The short iron B is then placed inl position as shown in Fig. l. We next apply the lower prop-iron, C, the top end of which is also provided with a square hole, (see Fig. 2,) and made to t upon the same squareof the bolt of lever D; and, last,

the front prop-iron, A, is placed upon the same bolt, the end of which is made round for the reception of this iron. Figs. 3 and 4 show i the order in which those irons B O A are arranged upon the bolt ofthe lever D. While,

person on the seat has only to lay hold of the lever D, and by a slight downward pressure the joint 2 of the prop-iron B and the joint 3 of the lower prop-iron, C, are broken in the direction of the dotted lines 5 and 6, when the top is let back and thetwo bows E3 and E4 are allowed to fold together, the same as in tops not having the quarter prop-'iron B and to raise the top this order ot proceeding' is reversed.

These prop-irons B and C may be used with or without the lever D, just as we may elect.

We are aware that the simple application of a short stift' quarter prop-iron is not new and we are also aware that the use of the lever D (shown in the drawings) for the purpose ot adjusting the lower prop-iron of ordinary tops is old and well known, and to either of these devices, separately, we lay no claim 5 but Ve do claim, broadly, as new, of our invention, and desire to secure the same by a grant of Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the prop-irons B C and top-prop T, constructed substantially as described, and operating as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the lever D vwith the prop-irons B G and top-prop T, constructed substantially as described, and operating as and for the purposes set forth.

CYRUS W. SALADEE. WM. BAUDER.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. BAUDEE, G. W. Galenus. 

